Steam says Merry Christmas

[LA_MERC_Nutria]

30,000 Steam Accounts Banned
DchozN @ 8:35 pm pst - community - 87 comments - hot topic
Valve disabled an additional 30,000 Steam user accounts that were found "to illegally gain access to Valve games without a valid purchase".
Today Valve disabled more than 30,000 Steam accounts which had been used to try to illegally gain access to Valve games without a valid purchase. Here's the quote for non-Steam forum members.

Valve takes such activities seriously and reserves the right to disable Steam accounts engaging in piracy, cheating, illegal activities, or any other activity in violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement. The accounts that are disabled today will not be reactivated. - Erik Johnson (Valve)
It looks like somebody is getting a lump of coal this Christmas.

[Slayer]

Haha, pwned!

I just hope they don't catch m...er...;)

No seriously, it would stink if they banned someone who was innocent.

[~a/c]

30,000 people....its hard to believe no one using a legit account would get screwed

[LA_MERC_Andyconda]

He knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.

[LA_MERC_T4rg3T]

The only legal accounts that get screwed are the ones who already had a legit key for cs1.6 and then used it to hack an account for HL2. They will just have to live with that fact that they got gimped by Valve :)

[LA_MERC_Nutria]

I heard when they release VAC they will do it secretly so they can ban a whole bunch of hackers by surprise.